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The GOP battle of the Martini party vs. the tea party will continue unabated in 2014 and beyond.

For the Koch brothers, billions spent on campaigning is merely the cost of doing business, as their return on investment runs in the tens of billions. Nevermind that the tea party's self-described "hostile takeover" of the Republican Party has knocked moderates out of Congress, lost the Senate two cycles in a row, and failed to win the presidency despite eight percent unemployment.

The tea party energy will continue to pursue their goal of letting Medicare wither on the vine as Newt Gingrich said, and making government so small as to drown in a bathtub, as Grover Norquist said. Recent proclamations to the contrary, Republicans still cower to corporate interests, and will readily cut earned benefits like Medicare without batting an eyelash.

Though corporate conservatives continue to malign Occupy "mobs" those leftist activists are rebuilding New York via Occupy Sandy, while tea party Republicans still refuse to let tax cuts for the top two percent expire.

That self-described "Taxed Enough Already" Republicans would deny tax cuts for the 98 percent in service to the top two percent tells Americans their true agenda: it is not tax cuts for the middle class but tax breaks to the ultra wealthy. If tea party Republicans really believed their own rhetoric they would give themselves and the other 98 percent of Americans a tax break rather than pushing America over the fiscal cliff for the sake of the top two percent.

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